Ah, where would science be if not for the contributions of the humble microscope? Did you know that the development of the world’s first microscope began in 11th century Iraq, when scientist and ...

The first microscopes were a lot better than they are usually given credit for. That's the claim of microscopist Brian Ford, a specialist in the history and development of these instruments based at ...

Since ancient times, it has been known that glass can bend light. Light is made up of electromagnetic waves and with properties such as wavelength and frequency, light usually behaves like a wave and ...

Microscopy is the scientific field dedicated to the analysis and imaging of materials too small to be viewed with the naked eye. The simplest of all optical microscopes is the brightfield microscope, ...

A recent developed microscope has allowed scientists to hold a front-row view on the “drama of mammalian development”. Scientists can now see inside a living mouse embryo, such as seeing the gut ...

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University of Arkansas’ assistant professor of biomedical engineering Timothy Muldoon has developed an endoscopic fiber-optic microscope capable of assisting medical staff in diagnosing the early ...